WNUR Jazz Report, 11/24/97

ADDS THIS WEEK

[New releases]

• various: CIMPosium Volume 3 (CIMP)
  Tracks culled from the third batch of 15 live-in-the-studio releases on Cadence's Creative Improvised Music Projects label by Bobby Zankel, Joe McPhee, Roswell Rudd, Ivo Perelman, Brandon Evans, John Gunther, Dominic Duval & Jay Rosen, Frank Lowe, Chris Kelsey, Zusaan Kali Fasteau, Dominic Duval's String Ensemble, Jon Hazilla, Khan Jamal, Bruce Eisenbeil, and Luther Thomas. <http://www.cadencebuilding.com/> for info.
• Jemeel Moondoc Trio: Fire in the Valley (Eremite)
  Moondoc with Laurence Cook and John Voigt live at the 1996 Fire in the Valley festival. Contact eremite@javanet.com.
• Tom Bruno & Sabir Mateen: Getting Away With Murder (Eremite)
  Tenor/drums duets recorded live on a NYC subway platform. Contact eremite@javanet.com.
• Ensemble Sondarc: For Four Rooms (For 4 Ears)
  Six bassists, six basses, recorded in resonant spaces (a church, a staircase, etc.).
• Le Quan Ninh: Ustensiles (For 4 Ears)
  Solo percussion that sometimes sounds like free improvisation and sometimes like geological/meterological events.
• Matt Darriau Paradox Trio: Flying at a Slant (Knitting Factory)
  Balkan jazz (from New York).
• Ben Allison@: Seven Arrows (Koch)
  1996 disc by the Jazz Composers Collective (Boston group also responsible for the Herbie Nichols Project disc that came out earlier this year on Soul Note).
• Evan Parker & Ned Rothenberg: Monkey Puzzle (Leo)
  Parker and Rothenberg debate through their saxophones the proper extent and manner in which one should be influenced by John Coltrane. Fiendishly difficult puzzle on the cover -- free CD of unused material from the sessions to a lucky winner. Leo has a web site now at <http://www.atlas.co.uk/leorecords/>.
• Sakis Papadimitriou & Lefteris Agouridakis: Plus and Minus (Leo)
  Greek piano/drums duo. Papadimtriou specializes in prepared piano, giving this a "mysterious", "Eastern" (and occasionally slightly new agey) feel.
• Giancarlo Nicolai Trio: And John Tchicai (Leo)
• Ivo Perelman & Borah Bergman: Geometry (Leo)
• Ivo Perelman & Joe Morris: Strings (Leo)
  Perelman on cello instead of his usual tenor sax.
• Steve Lacy: Associates (New Tone)
  Previously unreleased duet tracks, 1982-1994, with Masahiko Togashi, Steve Potts, Mal Waldron, Irene Aebi, Roswell Rudd, Bobby Few, Derek Bailey, George Lewis, Uli Gumpert, and Muhammad Ali (the drummer, stupid). <http://www.inrete.it/robidroli/home.html> for info on this and other New Tone releases, including the Ictus reissues below.
• Gil Evans@: The Honey Man (New Tone)
  Live 1986. Three trumpet players: one's first name is Miles, and another's last name is Davis, and there's a Bill Evans on here too (not the pianist).
• Bennink/Borstlap/Glerum: 3 (VIA)
  Piano trio (live but nicely recorded, great to hear Bennink coming through so clearly) do four standards & two improvised pieces. <http://www.netcetera.nl/jazzfacts/muze/borstlap/> for info.

[New reissues]

• Ganelin Trio: Ancora da Capo (Leo)
  1980 concert by the kings of Russian new jazz.
• Steve Lacy@: Trio Live (New Tone)
  Reissue of an Ictus LP, recorded 1976. With Kent Carter and Ictus proprietor Andrea Centazzo.
• Bradfield/Centazzo/Chadbourne/Cora/Kondo/Zorn@: Environment for Sextet (New Tone)
  Reissue of an Ictus LP, recorded 1978 at WKCR in New York. Superb document of early American free improvisation (with Centazzo from Italy and Toshinori Kondo from Japan).

[Not new, but new to our collection]

• Kowald/Ludi/Morris/Namchylak: When the Sun is Out You Don't See Stars (FMP)
• Misha Mengelberg: Impromptus (FMP)
• Hal Russell NRG Ensemble: Conserving NRG (Principally Jazz)

WEEKLY TOP 25

* denotes reissue, @ denotes not real new.

1. Mats Gustafsson: Improposition (Phono Suecia)
2. Vandermark 5: Live at the Empty Bottle (Savage Sound Syndicate)
3. Tim Berne/Bloodcount: Discretion (Screwgun)
4. Lee Morgan@*: Live at the Lighthouse (3 CD's) (Blue Note)
5. Ellery Eskelin: One Great Day (hatOLOGY)
6. Art Blakey*: Orgy in Rhythm (Blue Note)
7. Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: 21st Century Union March (Silkheart)
8. Paul Rutherford*: The Gentle Harm of the Bourgeoisie (Emanem)
9. Tim Berne/Paraphrase: Visitation Rites (Screwgun)
10. Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Withdrawal (1966-7) (Emanem)
11. Joe Henderson: Porgy & Bess (Verve)
12. Jackie McLean*: Swing, Swang, Swingin' (Blue Note)
13. Dave Douglas: Stargazer (Arabesque)
14. Club Foot Orchestra: Plays Nino Rota (Rastascan)
15. Dizzy Gillespie: Bird Songs (Telarc)
16. FJF: Blow Horn (OkkaDisk)
17. Coleman Hawkins*: Encounters Ben Webster (Verve)
18. Cedar Walton Sextet: The Art Blakey Legacy (Evidence)
19. Joe McPhee Quartet@: Legend Street One (CIMP)
20. Fred Frith Guitar Quartet: Ayaya Moses (Ambiances Magnetique)
21. Jim Hall: Live at the Village Vanguard (Telarc)
22. Jutta Hipp@*: With Zoot Sims (Blue Note)
23. Joe Morris & William Parker: Invisible Weave (No More)
24. John Zorn & Bobby Previte: Euclid's Nightmare (Depth of Field)
25. Kazutoki Umezu: First Deserter (Knitting Factory Works)